A presidential election runoff is a second round of voting held when no candidate wins a majority in the first round. In Brazil’s 2026 election, senator Flávio Bolsonaro received 47% of the vote and incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received 45%. They were set to face each other in the runoff on October 25.
Brazilian presidential election runoff
The second-round vote in Brazil’s 2026 presidential election, scheduled for October 25 after no candidate won a majority in the first round.